Attorney Michael Sfard, a leading figure in the global lawfare movement who has served as legal counsel for a number of highly biased and politicized NGOs, will testify as an expert witness for the PLO before a New York federal court.
Transparency regarding government funding for NGOs transcends partisan ideology, and is essential for ensuring the values of democracy and accountability.
Gerald Steinberg claims that while it will take major effort and many years to restore positive EU-Israel relations, Ms. Mogherini has the opportunity to initiate long-overdue change to failed and often destructive policies.
Attempting to litigate the highly charged Arab-Israeli conflict in the ICC could spell the end of the court, and the NGOs and their European funders will be responsible.
As with the Goldstone process, a network of highly politicized NGOs have been repeating unsupported allegations of Israeli war crimes and campaigning for a UN investigation into the current conflict.
Gerald Steinberg maintains that while Israel is acting according to international legal norms in its operation to locate the three kidnapped teenagers and root out terrorist infrastructure, a number of NGOs consistently accuse Israel of acting illegally.
German funding to political NGOs active in the Arab-Israeli conflict often supports radical organizations that oppose peace, promote demonization, political warfare, and in some cases, blatant antisemitism.
Gerald Steinberg asserts that in a moral world the kidnapping of three Israeli teens would have produced immediate and widespread outrage, but in the real world those who claim to promote "human rights" are largely silent.